Cult starved toddler to death for not saying ‘Amen’

THE leader of a religious cult ordered a one-year-old boy to be starved to death because he did not say “Amen” before a meal.

Three members of the now-defunct cult known as 1 Mind Ministries have gone on trial in Baltimore for murdering Javon Thompson, who was about 16 months old when he died of starvation and dehydration three years ago.

After his death, cult members prayed for his resurrection, then destroyed all evidence and stuffed his body in a suitcase, which they hid in a shed behind a home in Philadelphia, assistant state attorney Julie Drake told jurors.